Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushdie Affair and Figures of the War-On-Terror Decade

ISBN-13: 9781349477142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 219 str.

Nicole Falkenhayner

Opis

Tracing representations of the Rushdie affair from 1989 to 2009, this study establishes a genealogy of how British Muslims appeared on the public scene and how an imaginary and politics of this subject position developed.

Spis treści

PART I: THE RUSHDIE AFFAIR 1. Transnational Takeovers 2. Translation Failures 3. After the fatwa PART II: FIGURATIONS AFTER THE EVENT 4. The Fanatic Son 5. Making the British Muslim in Literature 6. Making the British Muslim in Film and Autobiography PART III: EVENTALIZATION TEMPLATES 7. Eventalizing the British Muslim 8. The Figure of the Muslim in Europe Conclusion

O autorze

Nicole Falkenhayner is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany.